The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-18
JOHANN MOST JAILED.
The Arch-Anarchist in the
Clutches Of the Law,
FOR HIS INCENDIARY SPEECH.
Last Friday Night-shrewd Tactics of
Inspector Byrnes Most
Denies the Charge.
Most Captured,

New YORK, November 17.-Herr
Most has been arrested and taken to
police headquarters. The arrest was
made on account of his language at the
Anarchist meeting on Saturday night.
The Anarchist was arrested at noon
to-day in the office of his newspaper
by Detectives Sergeant Crawley and
Mcclure, of Inspector Byrne's staff. he
was taken directly to police head
quarters and through the aIdermen's
gate and locked up il One of the cells
in the basement. His arrest was made
by direction of Inspector Byrnes on q
warrant issued by Justice CoWing, to-
day, for having made an incendiary
speech calculated to incite riot on last
Friday night, in hall on Seventh
Street. The warrant was made return
able before Justice CoWing in court.
AS early as last Wednesday, Superin-
tendent Murray intimated to his cap
tains that they should take particular
pains in watching the movements of
the Anarchists in this city, especially
during the excitement attending the
hanging of the Anarchists in Chicago,
On Friday, and their funeral On Sun
day. On Thursday night occurred the
parade of the Reds" and then all the
reserves were on duty. Late that night
Superintendent Murray issued special
orders to the captains to folloY all the
movements of all the Anarchists. and
report to him any meeting thew were
likely to hold. On Saturday night a
wake was to be held by the Anarchists.
in Florence Hall, in Second Avenue,
but Captain Mccullough succeeded in
getting his officers there before the So.
cialists arrived, and made it decidedly
uncomfortable for the indictments.
But while this was going on, Johann
Most with his companion, Lena
Fisher, was attending an Anarchist
meeting IN Seventh Street. After the
audience got well warmed up, Most
himself made speech, which was
particularly blood curdling in char
acter. Unfortunately for Most
Patrolmen Rott and Sechs, of
the Fourteenth Precinct, were there
in civilians dress, taking note. These
were brought to Superiu.
tendent Murray and laid before him.
and on Monday search was begun for
the Anarchist. He was not to be found.
and there was every reason to believe
he had left the jurisdiction of the State,
and was in hiding somewhere. Then
the shrewdness of Inspector Bvrnes
came into play. He knew that If he
made public the quandary of the police,
Most would naturally learn of it and he
would stay out of the city indefinitely,
80 he kept his mouth sealed and allowed
the excitement of the search for
Most to die out. The bait was
well used. Most thought the trouble
was gene by and yesterday he came
back to the city and went to work with
his paper. Byrnes was informed of this, |
and early this morning he went before
the district attorney and presented the
evidence he had obtained against Most, |
Of his incendiarism, and asked the |
grand jury to find an indictment against |
him. The inspector and seven witnesses |
gave evidence and an Indictment was |
ound. Meanwhile Most had been
Most insists that he did not use the
language attributed to him by the |
police. AS this is the second time he |
las been arrested for making violent |
peeches, he will probably get the full |
extent of the law, which is one years |
and fine.